They’re not sitting around philosophizing about their plight. What’s really fun about all of these characters is they’re very action-oriented. What is the fun of exploring somebody like that, where you know what’s driving her? Is it freeing to play somebody like that?īRENNEMAN: Yeah, it’s totally freeing.
The bad thing is that she will chew up anything, including herself, in the path.Įveryone in this has their own brand of messed up. The beautiful thing about that is that she’s a laser toward her purpose. Your character has a very clear drive, focus, and motivation in this, and that doesn’t waver throughout the whole thing.īRENNEMAN: She’s like a zealot.
She just loves her characters and she loves collaborating. But like all good writers – and Shonda Rhimes used to do this – when we got cast, you could just see that I was Mary to her. With Harriet, and maybe it’s because she wasn’t adapting a book and this was her brainchild, she really knew who these people were. I don’t have to protect myself anymore." That was really good timing. Nobody would ever know and I liked the performance that I rendered, but I remember thinking, "The next bad guy, I’m not going to give a shit," and then Mary came along and I was like, "I’m freed up. I remember, as an artist, being very aware of needing the audience to understand me and maybe like me. I’m like, "Hmm, I think I was the bad guy," but I remember resisting it. I just remember that, in the first season of The Leftovers, I really didn’t see myself as the bad guy. But then, where does she go and at what point does she hop off the train? She suffered this terrible loss that than any of us would go nuts over. With Mary, on the top level, she’s a very sympathetic character. It was really talking to her and the complexity and these different levels of Mary, and honestly all of the characters. She didn’t have all of the scripts written, but she knew where these characters were gonna go. RELATED: 'Tell Me Your Secrets' Ending: Can Emma Trust Anyone Anymore? Lily Rabe ExplainsĬOLLIDER: When this came your way, what was the appeal of this project for you? How much did you know about what the journey would be?ĪMY BRENNEMAN: I only read the pilot, but then I immediately got on the phone with Harriet, our wonderful writer.
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